It's also my personal experience.
FWIW, I loathed alimony, but I don't mind the child support. Indeed, although my daughter's (she was 2 when her mother and I met, but she's still MY daughter!) child support ended when she turned 18, I am voluntarily paying her an educational stipend.
Had I been married to the eeeeeevil slime mom only a bit longer the alimony would have been for life, apparently under the legal fiction that being married to a man permanently ruins a woman's ability to care for herself...
Just a legal fiction? If you look at what many FReeper men are looking for, that's one of the most sought after features! Careers and self sufficiency are much frowned upon, as, I imagine are women who have their own assets they might like to protect with a prenup.